Condenser.



F. & W. G. TYSON.

CONDENSER.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. 25, 1909.

1,071,481, Patented Aug. '26, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANMRAPH CD-L-WASHINBTDN! D. C.

F. & W. G. TYSON.

CONDENSER.

APPLICATION FILED T11R25, 1909.

Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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CONDENSER.

APPLICATION FILED 113.25, 1909.

Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PMNOQRAPH co. WASHINGTON. n. c

r. & W. G. TYSON. CONDENSER.

APPLICATION TILED THE. 25, 1909.

1,071,481 Patented Aug.26, 1913.

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."oLuMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, ov cv FRANK TYSON AND WILLIAM G.TYSON, OF CANTON, OHIO.

CONDENSER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, FRANK TYSON and \VILLIAMG. TYSON, both citizens of the United States, residing in Canton, Ohio,have invented certain Improvements in Condensers, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of our invention is to so construct a condensing apparatusfor steam or other vapors, (hereinafter, for convenience, termed steam)as to provide for the rapid condensation of large volumes of the steamwith the use of a minimum quantity of the condensing agent (hereinafterreferred to as water).

In the accompanying drawingsFigure 1 represents, in vertical transversesection on the line a-a, Fig. 2, condensing apparatus constructed inaccordance with our invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on theline Z)b, Fig. 1, with one of the pipe connections also shown inhorizontal section; Fig. 3 is an inverted horizontal section on the line00, Fig. 1, with one of the pipe connections also shown in section; Fig.4 is a section on the line cZ.cZ, Fig. 3, but on a larger scale; Fig. 5is a horizontal section on the line ee, Fig. 1, of one of the hollowdisks of the condenser, and Fig. 6 is a vertical section on the linef-f, Fig. 5.

The main casing of the condenser has an outer shell 1 and an inner shell2, said casing being mounted upon a suitable supporting structure 3,which also carries gearing of any desired character for impartingrotat-ive movement to a central hollow vertical shaft 4, which passesthrough a stufling box on the base 6 of the inner shell 2 of the casing,and is provided, within said casing, with a hollow head 7, from whichradiate a number of branches 9. Projecting upwardly from this hollowhead 7 is a central vertical shaft 10, and secured to the latter in anyappropriate way are a series of superposed hollow disks 11, five ofthese disks being shown in the present instance, although any desirednumber may be used, depending upon the desired capacity of thecondenser.

Resting upon a flanged collar at the top of the shaft 10 and, ifdesired, confined thereto so as to rotate therewith, is a hollow head 12from which projects a short vertical shaft 13 fitted to a stufling boX14 on the top 15 of the inner shell 2 of the casing. This head 12 alsohas a series of radiating branches 16 communicating with the headSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. February 25, 1909.

Patented Aug. 26,1913.

Serial No. 479,865.

12 in the same manner that the branches 9 communicate with the lowerhead 7, and each of the branches 9 and 16 is in communication with oneof the hollow disks 11, the pipe connections 17 which extend from thelower branches 9 each communicating with a hood 19 at the outer end ofone of a series of hollow radiating arms 20 on the under side of one ofthe hollow disks 11, and each of the upper branches 16 communicating,through a pipe connection 21, with a hood 22 on the top of one of thehollow disks 11.

Between the base 6 of the inner shell of the casing and the base 23 ofthe outer shell, between the outer and inner shells 1 and 2, and betweenthe top 15 of the inner shell and the top 24 of the outer shell, is achamber 25, this chamber communicating at the bottom with pipes 26 forthe inflow of the water with which the condenser is supplied, the topportion of the chamber communicating with a dome 27 centrally located onthe top 24 of the outer shell of the casing and this dome communicatingwith the upper hollow head 12 through the short pipe section 13, andthence through the branches 16 and pipe connections 21 with each of thehollow disks 11. Each of these disks has disposed within the same ahelical partition 29 $0 as to provide a helical passage 80, theoutermost convolution of said passage being in communication with thehood 22 on the top of the disk and the innermost convolution of saidpassage being in communication, through openings 81 in the bottom of thedisk, with all but one of the hollow arms 20 on the under side of thedisk. Each of the arms 20 which communicates with the centraltermination of the helical passage 30 is so partitioned as to formwithin it an out flowing and an inflowing passage communicating witheach other at the outer end of the arm, the inner end of the outflowingpassage communicating with the central termination of the helicalpassage 30 through the opening 31, and the inner portion of theinflowing passage communicating with a chamber 32 (Fig. 6) beneath thedisk, said chamber being in communication with the remaining arm 20 ofthe series, and the outer end of said arm being in communication withthe hood 19. The water therefore enters the lower portion of the chamber25 within the double casing of the condenser, flows through said chamberinto the dome 27,

thence into the upper distributing head 12 and through its branches andpipe connections into the outer convolutions of the heli cal passages 30of the disks 11. After traversing said passages the water flows, asindicated by the arrows in Fig. through the series of arms 20 on theundcrsides of the disks and finally escapes through the pipe connections17, branches J, lower hollow head 7, hollow shaft 4 and a pipecontinuation 33 of the said shaft to any suitable point of discharge.

Steam enters the chamber within the water-jacketed casing of thecondenser through an inlet pipe 3 tand comes into contact with thesurfaces of the rapidly rotating disks 11, their hoods 19 and 22, thepipe connections 17 and 21, and the distributing and collecting branches1G and 9. Steam is condensed by contact with the surfaces of the hollowdisks 11 and the hollow arms 20 on the underside of the same, and thewater of condensation is immediately thrown oil by centrifugal forceinto contact with the inner shell 2 of the casing and thence flows downon the inner side of said shell and along the inclined base of the sameto the outlet pipe 35 by which it is conveyed to any suitable point ofdischarge. Steam is also condensed upon the surfaces of the hoods, pipeconnecions and branches, from which it is discharged by centrifugalforce, and a whirling motion is imparted to the steam, by reason of itscontact with these rotating parts, so that the steam itself is throwninto contact with the inner shell of the double casing and is condensedthereon by reason of the chilling of said inner shell of the casing bycontact with the water flowing through the chamber 25, there also beinga certain amount of condensation of steam upon the top 15 and base 6 ofthe inner shell.

The whirling motion imparted to the steam causes it to thro against theinner shell of the casing solid or liquid particles such as globules ofoil which it may contain, and these solid or liquid particles carrieddown by the flow of water of condensation on the inner shell 2 andescape with said water of condensation through the pipe being afterwardrcadilv separated therefrom by reason of their different spocificgravity.

A partial vacuum may be maintained in the steam chamber by means of asuitable pump comn'iunicating with said chamber through a pipe 36, whichextends some distance above the base (3 of the inner shell of the casingso as to preclude the possibility of any water of condensation enteringthe same.

The pipe connections 17 and 21 are, as shown in Figs. 2 and so curved inrespect to the direction of rotation of the same that the water flowsbackwardly in the pipes from the distributing branches 1G to the hoodsand from the hoods 19 to the collecting branches 9, thereby aiding inthe rapid flow of the water through the pipes and their connections. Thewater jacket which surrounds the steam chamber of the condensereffectually prevents the inflow of air into said chamber which mightotherwise occur because of the partial \acuum maintained therein.

in order to carry the weight of the rotating disks and theirappurtenances the supporting plate 37 of the structi'lre below thecasing is provided with a ring 39 providing a race way for a series oftruncated conical rollers 10, which are held in proper relation to oneanother by means of an ordinary separator plate ll-l, these rollerscarrying a ring 42 which is secured to a flanged collar t3, the latterbeing secured to the lower end of the hollow shaft 4t and to the upperend of the pipe continuation 33 of said shaft, to which power is appliedto operate the rotating members of the condenser.

ll here each of the pipe connections 17 or 21 joins its correspondingbranch 9 or 16 there a stufling box e5, but in order to provide a moresecure connection between the pipe and branch than will be a lforded bythe mere frictional hold of the stuffing box packing upon the pipe, weprovide the end of the latter with segmental. lugs 40, as shown in Fig.l, these lugs, when the pipe is in its proper position in respect to thebranch, engaging with inwardly projecting lugs 47 in the bore of thebranch, whereby the pipe locked to the branch so far as regards anyradial movement of one in respect to the other. the pipe being releas dfrom such control by a partial turn su' lcient to free its lugs 46 fromon gement with the lugs l-T.

Although in this specification we have used the terms steam and waterthe term steam intended to include any 'tluid which it is desired tocondense, and the term water to include any zvailable con- (lensingagent.

li e claim 1. The combination, in a condenser, of a wasing inclosing achamber, a. rotating hollow disk structure contained in said chamber andcomprising a plurality of disks, and means for supplying fluid. to anddischarging it from each of said disks independently of the others.

2. The emnbination, in a condenser, of a jacketed casing containing achamber, a rotating hollow disk structure in said chamber com n'ising aplurality of disks, and means for supplying fluid to and discharging itfrom each of said disks independently of the others.

3. The combination, in a condenser, of a casing containing a chamber andhaving a jacket surrounding it, a. rotating hollow disk structure insaid chamber having superposed disks, means for supplying fluid to thebottom of said jacket, means for conveying fluid from the top of thejacket to the disks of the disk structure, and means for dischargingsaid fluid from the bottom of the disk structure.

4. The combination, in a condenser, of a casing containing a steamchamber, a rotating hollow disk structure therein, and heads above andbelow said disk structure, one of said heads serving to distribute fluidto the disk structure and the other to receive the fluid therefrom.

5. The combination, in a condenser, of a casing inclosing a steamchamber, a rotating hollow disk structure in said chamber with upper andlower hollow shaft sections, each communicating with the disk structureand one serving to convey fluid thereto and the other to receive ittherefrom.

6. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow disk structurecomprising a plurality of disks, distributing and receiving heads, eachhaving as many projecting branches as there are disks, and a pipeconnection between each of said branches and its respective disk.

7. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow disk structurecomprising a plurality of disks, distributing and receiving heads, eachhaving as many projecting branches as there are disks, and a pipeconnection between each of said branches and its respective disk, saidpipe connections being detachable from the branches but locked theretowhen in place.

8. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow disk structurecomprising a plurality of disks, distributing and receiving heads, eachhaving as many projecting branches as there are disks, and a pipeconnection between each of said branches and its respective disk, saidpipe connections being detachable from the branches but locked theretowhen in place and having stufling boxes beyond the look ing engagements.

9. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow disk structurecomprising a plurality of disks, and a fluid distributer havingbackwardly curved pipe connections with said disks, each of saidconnections being independent of the others.

10. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow disk structurecomprising a plurality of disks, a fluid distributor and fluid receiver,backwardly curved pipe connections between said distributer and disksand backwardly curved pipe connections between the disks and thereceiver, the connections with each disk being independent of theconnections with the other disks.

11. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow disk structurecomprising a plurality of disks and means whereby the fluid is bothreceived and discharged from said disks at points adjacent to theperiphery of the same.

12. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow diskstructure, having a helical partition with peripheral inlet and a hollowarm communicating with the interior of the disk at the center thereof,said hollow arm having a discharge pipe connection at its outer end.

13. The combination, in a condenser, of a hollow rotatable diskstructure, having thereon a plurality of external hollow arms, one ofwhich communicates at its outer end with a discharge pipe, and means forcausing flow of fluid first through the hollow disk and then througheach of the hollow arms thereon.

14. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow diskstructure, having a plurality of external hollow arms, one of said armscommunicating with all of the others and each of the lattercommunicating independently with the interior of the hollow disk.

15. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow diskstructure, having a plurality of external hollow arms, one of said armscommunicating with all of the others and each of the lattercommunicating independently with the interior of the hollow disk buthaving a partition which causes fluid to pass first outwardly and theninwardly through the same.

16. The combination, in a condenser, of a rotating hollow diskstructure, having a helical partition whereby the fluid received at theperipheral portion of .the disk is caused to flow to the central portionof the same, said disk also having a plurality of external hollow arms,one of said arms communicating with all of the others and having adischarge connection at its outer end, and each of the remaining arms ofthe series communicating with the central portion of the chamber withinthe hollow disk.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK TYSON. WILLIAM G. TYSON. Witnesses:

H. B. STEWART, W. F. HAY.

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